Scott Burrell To Be Inducted Into New Haven Tap-Off Club Hall of Fame Tonight

Nov 10, 2009

HAMDEN, Conn. - Quinnipiac University Men's Basketball Assistant
Coach Scott Burrell will be inducted into the New Haven Tap-Off
Club Hall of Fame tonight at the Foxon Country House. Burrell will
join Joe Carfora, Nick Economopoulos, Archie Tracy, Tina Gonyea,
Ann Moscovics and April Hunt in being inducted.

"It's definitely a great honor," said Burrell. "To get put into
any hall of fame, it's a thrill. There's an elite group of people
from this area who have done a lot of things for basketball, on and
off the court, and it's a great honor to join those people."

One of the most accomplished players in the history of
collegiate basketball in the state of Connecticut, Scott Burrell
enters his third season as an assistant coach on the Quinnipiac
men's basketball staff. Burrell joined Tom Moore's staff in July
2007 after a professional career in the National Basketball
Association (NBA) that spanned more than a decade and included
a World Championship title with the Chicago Bulls in 1998.

Previously, Burrell was an assistant coach with the Colorado
14ers of the NBA Developmental League. He spent eight seasons as a
player in the NBA with the Charlotte Hornets, Golden State
Warriors, Chicago Bulls and New Jersey Nets. He also played
professionally in Japan, Spain, the Philippines and China.

Burrell was selected by the Charlotte Hornets in the first round
(No.20 overall) in the 1993 NBA Draft after an outstanding
collegiate career at the University of Connecticut. At the
conclusion of his career, he was the first player in NCAA Division
I history to have topped 1,500 points, 750 rebounds, 300 steals and
275 assists.

During his four seasons at UConn (1989-93), he set a UConn
record with 310 career steals and also closed his career in second
place on the Huskies' all-time list in blocked shots (129). He also
ranked eighth all-time in scoring (1,562 points).

A three-sport scholastic standout at Hamden (Conn.) High School,
Burrell was selected by the Seattle Mariners as a pitcher in the
first round of the 1989 Major League Baseball Draft, but chose to
attend UConn instead. A year later, he was a fifth-round pick of
the Toronto Blue Jays. He played two years of professional baseball
in the Toronto minor league system.

Burrell remains the only athlete in major professional sports
history to be drafted in the first round in two sports.